Bungie discussing Destiny at GDC

GS:Bungie will discuss its all-new and still-unannounced franchise--believed to be titled Destiny--in late March during a 2013 Game Developers Conference talk at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

yea, but you don't have to pay their bills. Business is business. I guess gamers are forgetting that MS still owns a part of Bungie so they will always get first dibs on anything they develop. Just because they are independent doesn't mean they don't preference has changed. It was a business decision and a smart one at that. Anytime a studio can stand up on it's own and choose it's own publisher is a good thing.

The thing is we've always had some sort of exclusive deals going on to get consumers to buy the hardware and the 3rd party games makes up the bulk of any systems library. We have some developers who side with certain platform holders more than the others. This generation we saw Epic favor the Xbox 360 and Konami favor the PS3 and so on.

What Microsoft has done is create parity, something they drastically got undermined during the PS2 days. So we saw them take an aggressive approach to get publishers like Square-Enix and games like The Last Remnant and make deals with Rockstar and Activision. When you have a company like Sony who dominated for two generations in a row sometimes that's tough to do. Now you have Sony fans screaming bloody murder because games like Call of Duty get timed exclusive DLC or Bethesda doesn't take the time on the PS3 versions of games like Skyrim. Nintendo wasn't nearly as aggressive attaining 3rd party support and going into the Wii U consumers may once again bypass that system for multiplat games.

This is what's going to make next generation all the more interesting because of how well all three performed this generation (the Wii U is already starting the next gen.) We are already seeing forum members siding with upcoming systems, even those we know nothing about. I don't have loyalty to any of them which is why I'm curious to see what they announce and what the Wii U does this year.

You're looking at it wrong me thinks. Its a microsoft exclusive that will eventually go multiplatform. I actually miss the days where consoles were completely different like n64 vs ps1

But I'm fortunate enough to have a ps3+360+wii, but it won't be long before you can pick one of these consoles for $99. So everyone should get a chance to experience the opposite systems exclusive if they really want.

well my reply to that would be, as a 360 owner, I don't find any satisfaction in getting timed exclusive content and i don't think it justifies paying for xbox live. Having timed exclusive content isn't the equivalent of having exclusive games and features.

It's not like i feel better knowing other non-xbox gamers just got screwed over and i get to play something before them. I do feel better knowing that the console i purchased has a game/franchise/feature that i love, like halo, and I just wouldn't be as satisfied owning a console where i wouldn't be able to play it.

If all the money they spend on timed exclusivity went towards making new games, I would be a lot happier. It's a very backwards strategy with making gamers feel satisfied by timed exclusives, when they're technically not effected by it at all. It hurts the industry and encourages fanboy-ism.

But that's exactly why "people complain that XBL Gold isn't worth it". People prefer more games/ new IP's over timed DLC, early demos. It sucks that people are getting things like that crappy RE6 dlc, or that mediocre 73 meta rated Dawnguard DLC instead of KILLER FREAKING INSTINCT 3!

"They have been working on next gen titles since 2010"

With Microsoft focusing more on casual games and Kinect. *Looks at the last 3 years. I fear that that's what most of Microsoft's studios will focus on for next gen in general. Especially with Nintendo out of the way, they pretty much have the casual market to themselves.

I'm not really digging Microsoft's direction. Focusing more on timed DLC, early demos, casual games/ kinect. But I guess some people prefer that. : /

"New IPs haven't exactly lit it up for any console late this generation."

Dragon's Dogma? Journey? Dishonered? Sleeping Dogs? The Last Of Us certainly looks like it'll be a hit. New IP's don't have to have HUGE MEGA HIT SALES to be successful. lol

That money isn't going towards getting content EARLY, it's going towards making the other guys get their content LATE. You're basically paying Microsoft to say "haha, we get [irrelevant piece of dlc] first, you have to wait. xbox ftw!!".

But hey, as long as petty and immature fanboy wars make you happy, I guess I'm not one to tell YOU that gold isn't worth it.

@Sonic200 the last core PS3 game was in 2011 and the next isn't do for months. You call MS casual? The closest to "core" for the PS3 has been Journey. If you're going to play the casual card, make sure you have it.

Starhawk and Twisted Metal came out in 2012 did it not? Kinda funny how a game like Journey managed to end up being a better experience and garner more critical acclaim than every 360 exclusive in 2012.

And I'm talking about the past couple of years, not just last year. LOL @ only pointing out last year when talking "core" exclusives.

*LOOKS AT YEARS 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, AND 2013 (ESPECIALLY 2013). What does the 360 have this year? Like one game right? Gears? lol

Yeah they sure made many other games, over a decade ago, and I was playing better games even back then. I can give you bet that most people who made those games back then are not even part of the studio anymore.

Halos are their most recent titles that they have been working for over 10 years now, which all are made for consoles (with exclusion of first Halo which turned out to be pos console port on PC anyways)

So yeah, let me restate what I said in OP, at this point, they are gonna have hard time making anything new and something that is not Halo like, and the article only supports my point.